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Internationally
Known Archivist to Head Up the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection
at Morehouse College
Deputy
Director of the Georgia Department of Archives and History
to lead team for King’s alma mater
ATLANTA—July
17, 2006— Morehouse College
has hired Brenda S. Banks as Chief Archivist to facilitate
organizing more than 10,000 pieces of the Martin Luther
King Jr. Collection at Morehouse College, King’s undergraduate
alma mater. Morehouse received the collection, which includes
more than 7,000 pieces written in King’s hand, after
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and other civic and corporate
leaders struck an eleventh-hour, multi-million dollar deal
last month to keep the coveted collection from being auctioned
to the highest bidder by Sotheby’s auction house in
New York City.
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College Benefits from Purchase of the King Papers on Behalf
of the City of Atlanta Private Coalition bans together to
bring the papers back to King’s birth city.
ATLANTA—June
23, 2006— Late tonight, the City of Atlanta
announced that a deal has been struck to bring the coveted
Martin Luther King Jr. Collection back to Atlanta. The papers
were scheduled to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on June
30.
The city says
the transaction, of an undisclosed amount, was made possible
through the unprecedented response of Atlanta business and
civic leaders and other private parties. Atlanta Mayor Shirley
Franklin said that the coalition paid a fair price for the
priceless collection.
Martin
Luther King Jr. was a 1948 graduate of Morehouse College.
He entered Morehouse as an early admission student at the
age of 15. Dr. Walter E. Massey, president of Morehouse
College, said that Morehouse is where the papers should
be.
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